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Principal Java Engineer

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $326,400–$516,400🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and operate core components of the next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch offering, focusing on distributed systems scale, performance, and resilience.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

Next-generation Serverless Elasticsearch platform

Domain

Search, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Consensus algorithms, Core Java, Algorithms, Large-scale system design, Project ownership, Cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Data stores, Search, Lucene, JDK internals, Asynchronous event-driven network frameworks (Netty)

Technologies

Elasticsearch, Java, Netty, Lucene

Responsibilities

Design and build core pieces of the Serverless Elasticsearch offering; Improve components supporting concurrent and consistent indexing across multiple machines; Maintain cluster coordination system for high performance and safety; Push limits on shards, nodes, and petabytes; Troubleshoot performance and concurrency issues; Support engineers with complex problems; Own operational investigations end-to-end.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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